Let me tell you of the forest,
stories written in earth tongue
transmitted by mycelial mat.
Bare limbs severed,
raw splinters,
rib cages buried in moss.
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Michele S. Cornelius spent years chasing clouds on the back roads of the west, but is now settled in Southeast Alaska where she wanders in old-growth forests, admires the sea, and works to capture ephemeral bits of nature. Her website is michelescornelius.com.
Threesome …
they lie in bed together
petting the cat
quarreling sparrows
the old woman says a gray dove
is their mother
Bright wind
a white cloud of ibis
touch the earth
Green trees
and silver clouds
no poems but this
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Kris Lindbeck writes haiku etc on Twitter @krislindbeck & recently published in M.Kei’s Bright Stars, Skylark Tanka, & an essay on senryu in Simply Haiku.
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Angie Werren lives (and writes) in a tiny house in Ohio. Sometimes she takes pictures of things in the yard.
paddling sea kayaks
into black ink
and prehistoric forests
we realised
how young we were
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Robyn Cairns is a Melbourne based poet who shares her poetry and photography on twitter. Robyn enjoys writing about nature and her local industrial landscape. She has a passion for photography and being outdoors. Robyn is continuously inspired by other poets on platforms such as twitter – she can be found @robbiepoet. She is also a proud member of an online Haiku group called The Banyan Tree. She has recently had the honour of being published in Bright Stars tanka journal volumes 2, 3, 5 and 6 and has also been recently published in Cattails and The Bamboo Hut.
a wild sky
tethered to earth…
chain lightning
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Debbie Strange is a widely published tanka and haiku poet, as well as an avid photographer. Her current passion is for creating tanshi (small poem) art. You are invited to see more of her work on Twitter @Debbie_Strange.
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Marianne Paul is a Canadian poet and novelist. Recently, she has been focusing on minimalist poetry – primarily haiku and tanka. You can learn more about her work at www.mariannepaul.com or on Twitter @mariannpaul.
eventide a gull’s cry so familiar
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Shloka Shankar is a freelance writer residing in India. Her work appears in two dozen anthologies including Chronicles of Urban Nomads, The Dance of the Peacock, Emanations IV, The Living Haiku Anthology, Family Matters, The Traversal of Lines, and Eastern Voices among others. Her poems, erasures, haiku, tanka, and haibun, have appeared in numerous print and online journals.
Forty degrees and foggy. Barefoot in the parking lot. His kisses keep you warm enough long enough to see him off.
floodplains
where her family history
ends
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Aubrie Cox went to university to write a novel and came out writing haiku. It’s worked pretty well so far. Now, she teaches at Millikin University and is an editor for the online journal A Hundred Gourds. Her poetry and prose can be found in publications such as Modern Haiku, Frogpond, NANO Fiction, and forthcoming in WhiskeyPaper. She regularly blogs at Yay Words! and sometimes tweets @aubriecox.
luscious peach
in a bowl of blue —
one perfectly ripe
sunset
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Julie Bloss Kelsey writes microfiction and short-form poetry. Her poems have appeared in tinywords, The Heron’s Nest, Eye to the Telescope, and A Hundred Gourds, among others. Find her on Twitter @MamaJoules.
faultless hand sewn quilts
are impossible to find –
an uneven stitch
identifies the maker
as a fallible human
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Vivienne Blake is an elderly Englishwoman living in rural Normandy, where she spends her time writing and quilting.
